Others will drop to their worst ever ranking in the last couple of years:

FYR Macedonia (at most 138 - 147 in May 1994) - 21 years and 6 months
Honduras (at most 93 - 95 in November 1998) - 17 years
Netherlands (16 - 21 in June 2000) - 15 years and 5 months
New Caledonia (180 - 188 in May 2006) - 9 years and 6 months
Slovenia (at most 62 - 62 in July 2009) - 6 years and 4 months
Armenia (at most 125 - 125 in September 2009) - 6 years and 2 months
Denmark (35 - 36 in May 2010) - 5 years and 6 months
Puerto Rico (170 - 170 in September 2010) - 5 years and 2 months
Tahiti (at most 191 - 194 in September 2010) - 5 years and 2 months

Chile will be ranked above Brazil for the first time ever.
Northern Ireland will be ranked above USA for the first time ever.
Cape Verde Islands will be ranked above Denmark and USA for the first time ever.
Hungary will be ranked above Denmark for the first time ever.
Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan will be ranked above Kuwait for the first time ever.
Kazakhstan will be ranked above FYR Macedonia for the first time ever.
Guam will be ranked above New Zealand for the first time ever.
Timor-Leste will be ranked above India for the first time ever.

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Hossam, the third round of African qualifying is a group stage with 5 groups of 4 countries and the first matches are scheduled for October 2016. The draw date and seeding procedure is yet unknown, although probably there will be 4 pots of 5 countries, ranked according to the prevailing FIFA-ranking at the draw date.Elo predicts the following 20 countries to come through the play-offs in round 2 in November and their resulting points and positions in the December 2015 ranking:

What do you think Hossam ? Of course: all results up until yesterday were included and the results of the scheduled matches were elo-predicted in above ranking. Senegal drops from 713 pts in October to 678 pts in November because of the two (friendly) losses in October (they are predicted to win the return-friendly against Guinea next week), and in November they are predicted to win both WC-qualifiers against Madagascar (530 matchpoints each), so in the December ranking they will climb again with these results to 687 pts.On the other hand a WC-qualifier win over Chad delivers Egypt only 325 matchpoints while their first time-frame average is around 350, so that doesn't improve their FIFA-points not substantially.Sorry Hossam, you have to be patient with Egypt climbing the ranks again. They have lost a lot of ground in the ranking towards the African top teams with their last two Africa Cup misses, and that can't be repaired in a jiffy. You need consistent, winning performances in matches that really count for the rankings like WC-qualifiers against equal opposition in the third round of African qualifying, before you can start climbing again.

No problem, you're welcome. I can imagine it's hard for an Egypt-fan, first winning three African Cups in a row, being God in Africa, and then missing the next three. The drop is really big and your position in seeding pots will (for the near future) not be at the front row, that's the reality for now. But with important, high-valued African Cup-qualifiers and WC-qualifiers coming next year, there are plenty of chances to get back at that position, maybe next year already.

Belgium the new number 1.... Well deserved, they are the most consistent team at the moment. If things fall their way they could be on top for the coming months, maybe even until March 2016. And maybe we will see another new team on top in May and June 2016. Just maybe...

Belgium was consistent the last few years (except against Wales :) ) no wonder, with the most expensive team in the world...Are they better than Germany, Brazil, e.a. ? Of course not! However, on a good day... who knows? :)But that's the Fifa system... we Belgians can only marvel and enjoy. :)

Mohammed, can you give a source for the November 28 draw date?http://m.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2015/m=11/news=june-draw-for-third-round-of-african-zone-qualifiers-2733952.html says it's June 24th 2016.

If it's June next year the pot-distribution will be based on the June 2016 ranking. Do you have a source for the pot-distribution you mention ?

Hossam, I can't give a prediction until the ranking date of the June 2016 ranking is known. Maybe you have followed the discussion last year November about the possible ranking dates of this years July ranking for the WC-draw and their rather vast implications on the seeding. I don't want to speculate too much this time, so I will wait until next year's ranking dates are officially published and that will be somewhere in December I guess.